novelden Chapter 168 Monthly Payment and New Year's Goods
Chapter 168 Monthly Payment and New Year's Goods
When New Year's Eve comes, everyone on the farm is smiling.
After Lin Jiaojiao accompanied Fu Qi back home, except for going to the city every two days to check on the renovation of the shops, she spent the rest of her time in the studio drawing new land planning designs.
In the past half month, she first expanded the area of Lin's house by two times. It would not be good if it was too big, and she didn't want to walk half a day to her own home.
Then a small lake was drawn next to the designed Lin house, and the pavilion, rest facilities and greenery by the lake were designed.
She drew four two-courtyards around the lake, starting from the side of Lin's house. In the middle was the girls' and boys' school, and next to it were six single-courtyards.
These are all standard buildings, similar in appearance to the Lin residence. They are not too novel, but not too complicated either, and their main focus is convenience and comfort.
At the back is a small courtyard. This type of courtyard is small but has many rooms and is affordable. She plans to build twenty of them. At the end is a townhouse, which has only one room, a toilet and a kitchen.
We will build twenty of them first, with ten rooms in a row. The backs of the houses will be arranged against each other to form an alley. If there are not enough houses at the back, we can build more behind them.
The street shops are located opposite the lake next to Lin's house. When the time comes, we just need to build a row of shops. Their main purpose is to provide the villagers with necessities such as food and cloth, so not many shops are needed.
There is still some vacant land by the lake on the farm side. She built this parent-child children's park. She designed some playgrounds for children, but there are not many things, just some seesaws, swings, slides, and some facilities for exercising arm strength.
The rest of the place is landscape design, with some flowers, plants and trees planted. Different flowers bloom throughout the year, which is pleasing to the eye.
Three factories will also be built in parallel with the three existing workshops on the farm. One will be used to make hot pot base, another will be kept as a backup, and the last one will be a mushroom house.
Because she couldn't open a skylight and the roof couldn't let in sunlight, she had to design two walls into windows to allow both light and ventilation.
There were still some details that she would deal with in the next few days, and now she had to go and pay her employees their monthly wages and give them holidays.
The seafood she brought back had been almost eaten up in the two banquets, but there was still some in her backpack. She took it out and sorted it out with Lin Yizhi and Fu Qi to distribute New Year's goods to each employee.
The bakery staff had already packed the cakes and biscuits in the morning, and Lin Dadan also brought the ten kilograms of rice and two kilograms of pork per person to the canteen entrance.
The tables in the cafeteria were taken out and arranged to place the employee welfare New Year’s goods, and a banner was also hung.
[New Year, new atmosphere, and a more brilliant year ahead. Lin’s Farm wishes the workers a safe and happy New Year. 】
This was written by the only scholar in our village. Lin Yun came back seven days ago. It was a lively occasion. The officials of Chongkan Town announced with drums and gongs that Lin Yun had won the seventh place in the first class, which was just right for him to take part in the autumn provincial examination next year.
Lin Jiaojiao also went to congratulate her on this matter, but she was more relieved, after all, this was Lin Shen's most beloved sister.
They went to his grave together, and Lin Jiaojiao told him the good news. The two burned some paper money and incense for him. Lin Yun remained silent along the way.
But when they left, she said to Lin Jiaojiao: "It would be great if my brother could marry you."
Then he won't leave...
Lin Jiaojiao felt a little strange. After all, she and Lin Shen were going to get married the next day. But the illness came so suddenly that she suspected that he was poisoned. She asked Chen Chengniang and her doubts were finally dispelled.
But in the end, she didn't get married, so she didn't think much about it and comforted her.
"Your brother and I have already been engaged. We have exchanged tokens of love. He has also worn his wedding dress, so he is considered to be married to me. You are also my sister. Just study and I will support you. If you pass the imperial examination and come back, your brother will be happy in the afterlife."
Finally, with Lin Yun's strange and unspeakable expression on her face, the two said goodbye and went back to their respective homes.
All the farm employees lined up at the canteen entrance, and looked at the pile of food on the table.
"It's too extravagant to use this red cloth for writing."
"What do you know? This is the boss's blessing to us."
"That's right, I just don't know if everyone at the table has them? Or only the best performers?"
"I secretly counted them, and they made me dizzy. Anyway, there were so many, I think everyone should have one..."
Lin Fen also pulled over a truck full of oil paper bags and small wooden boxes. Song Jiajia and others sorted the things in the truck and put them on the truck.
Lin Jiaojiao arrived late with her family. This was her first time to see the employees on the farm face to face. She didn't expect there were so many people.
Lin Yiyan supported his waist and sat on the chair with a cushion on it. Zhao Xiaotong placed the account book in front of him.
Lin Jiaojiao stood at the table and followed. Facing the quiet and orderly team in front of her, she cleared her throat, feeling a little nervous.
"Today is New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is the Chinese New Year. I wish everyone a happy new year in advance."
"The boss is happy too."
"Happy New Year, Boss..."
She looked at the energetic people in front of her, everyone with a smile on their face, and she immediately relaxed.
"It's quite cold standing outside in the winter, so I won't say much. Thank you all for your hard work since the establishment of the farm. Our farm is getting better and better. In addition to me and my husband, we have a total of 67 employees on the farm."
Then she pointed to the items on the table behind her and continued, "These things are your New Year's benefits, everyone gets one..."
Before she finished speaking, the crowd below cheered.
"Thank you, boss!"
"Thank you, boss! Thank you, husband!"
"Great! This is the best year I've ever had..."
She smiled and raised her hand for silence, and the crowd instantly quieted down.
"This little wooden box is a little gadget I brought back from the extra-chapter. It's not worth much, but it's also quite meaningful. Not everyone can have one, though. I'll give it to you based on your performance and work ability over the past few months. Don't be discouraged if you don't get one. You all know that what our farm lacks the most is welfare rewards, right?"
"Correct!"
"Yes! I won't take a single day off after the New Year!"
"Me too! I will definitely be included in the next reward!"
She was also happy to see that everyone present was excited, but the male workers queuing on the other side were a little more reserved.
Lin Dadan began to take control of the situation. "Okay, those whose names are called, please come forward to collect your monthly allowance. After checking that everything is correct, please sign and stamp your handprint. Then, come over here to collect the New Year's gifts."
Lin Jiaojiao took the list and started reading out the names, and also got to know the newcomers so that she would be familiar with them in case her own employees didn't recognize them.
"Wu Guixiang."